If you leave your mouth open for long enough, you break the vacuum holding the shit and piss stink in and you’ll start smelling.

Yeah, I guess that’s true

It… also costs 100k

Edit: sorry, sorry, 70k — much better

Avian dinosaurs certainly existed, it isn’t inaccurate to just call them dinosaurs.

Chickens actively hunt and eat mice, as well. I’ve actually seen one of my chickens find, slam around until dead (I fucking hope it was dead anyway), and swallow whole a mouse.

Brutal little creatures. They would 100% kill and eat you if they were big enough/ you were small enough.

Fuck, you made me laugh cough with that last bit.

I guess that’s true, I have actually mentioned it to a few of my coworkers – they all had a reaction that more or less spoke ‘there simply isn’t enough time for that’ lol.

Tangentially, there’s also this bilibili show called ling long reincarnation that, whether I’m stupid for liking it or not, is awesome. The thing about it is that I’ve always felt like there’s something lost in translation about the show, or there are themes that I’m simply unaware of due to… well an overall lack of knowledge about Chinese language and culture, I suppose.

Idk, full immersion would be best like you said — I just have no idea where I’d find that in California. I’m sure there are places, but then there’s the extra layer of somehow finding enough time to actually absorb the language through immersion. Perhaps I’ll just take up Spanish lol, I always did well in it in school and it’s close enough to English. I think it would probably be much easier to find people who speak Spanish here.

Well, to answer your primary question — many of the people on the team I work with speak… it’s either Cantonese or Mandarin, I think they told me Mandarin but I’m not entirely sure. It isn’t something that would necessarily help me on a professional level, but it would help me on a personal level with many of them.

That’s genuinely my motivation, I don’t really care about ‘seeming’ bilingual — this is mostly to bring me closer to people who have helped me at work.

We have been here for years, the NSA has been recording everything we say here in the U.S. for… a long time. I’m not actually clear on how long they’ve been doing it.

Also, I can buy a camera no wider than a penny and have it quite literally anywhere on my person without you knowing — unless nudists also have a rule where they drive to the nude beach naked, you’ve kinda been shit out of luck for a while there too.

Edit: sorry, sorry — I lied. It is slightly larger than a penny.

Since Lemmy apparently has a ton of people who are bilingual — how do I as a 31 year old man that knows enough Spanish to say ‘Thank you, where is the bathroom?’ and frequently watches anime in subtitles gain another language? I’m open to all suggestions, except bad ones. Specifically I am interested in learning Mandarin because I hate myself.

They’re right, we know exactly the kind of damage snorting powdered drugs has on your nose and heart. They were taking a calculated risk, you were just rolling the dice with your health. Owned again, liberal.

(I AM JOKING)

Ok, but do you have weed?

For reference, I look like John Lennon with longer hair and I definitely have weed. So the stereotype about me is 100% true.

Suckers, as well.

No issues, just become a master craftsmen and compete with other master craftsmen. Easy.

I think my advice is that you should choose your sexual partners more carefully.

Is it cruel?

I don’t agree, I think if you force a crying child to say their name — that’s obviously going too far. But it is important to get kids used to socializing, human beings need other human beings ultimately.

Or get used to eating burnt food, that worked for me

I’m pretty sure that waffle could easily fit 5 rows of 5, am I crazy?

It’s still funny

Yes, but wouldn’t it become that much easier to achieve with an effectively limitless quantity of the resource?

I mean yeah, Musk is a fucking idiot that wants to retroactively prove the book he got his name from.

At least, that’s my headcanon.